TinyCat Wiget for homepages

Is there a TinyCat widget for users to embed on our home pages? I was thinking a button that links directly to our catalog or a basic search box?

Visitors can't see your LT home page; only if they're logged in as you. But there is the TinyCat logo on the top navigation bar.

If you mean your own website, that I don't know.

>1 JesuitArchives:

To be clear, you mean a TC widget on your LibraryThing home page, right?

I'm not sure about a widget, but I think a link from your LibraryThing profile to your TinyCat catalogue is a good idea, and we'll be looking into it.

You can of course make the TC logo a link on your own institution's homepage; either to the TC home page or a special search - iirc once you do a search you should be able to copy the URL and use that as a permanent link.

I meant our institution's home page. Right now I just have some hypertext that links directly to the front page of our TinyCat Catalog (http://jesuitarchives.org/collections/research-and-rare-book-collection/). I was hoping for something a little more streamline, like a search box to embed on our website page. I just want to give patrons access to our catalog with the fewest number of clicks.

We don't have any widgets at this point, but it's something that we'd be interested in.
We might just make the standard LT widget/search widgets have an option to open links in TinyCat, which would be an easy quick solution.

>5 JesuitArchives:

A search box is easy, and, I agree, smart.

I've written up directions for doing that here:

Sharing Your TinyCat Library
http://www.librarything.com/wiki/index.php/Sharing_Your_TinyCat_Library

The page is incomplete, but the section on search boxes is good. We could come up with a "styled" version of the search box. This is the unstyled version—your site is so nicely designed, I'm sure you or someone else knows how to make it fit right in.

I am looking for the same thing. I want a widget to embed in our homepage. It is hard to believe the free version has one but Tiny cat doesn't.

I tried the HTML from the link posted by Jesuit Archives, and TinyCat said, "for public libraries only, yours is a private library" (paraphrased).

>8 GRUResourceLibrary: TinyCat is very new. LT as a whole has been around for over 10 years.

>8 GRUResourceLibrary:

I'm going to add the option to link to TC, not LT.

>9 JaeKamel:

Unfortunately, that's not going to change. Widgets are inherently public things. Like RSS feeds, they expose data by design. So libraries that want a widget must be public.

I just added the TinyCat widget to my blog and it works great. Thank you!